Title
Wasserstein Variational Inference.
Abstract
This paper introduces Wasserstein variational inference, a new form of approximate Bayesian inference based on optimal transport theory. Wasserstein variational inference uses a new family of divergences that includes both f-divergences and the Wasserstein distance as special cases. The gradients of the Wasserstein variational loss are obtained by backpropagating through the Sinkhorn iterations. This technique results in a very stable likelihood-free training method that can be used with implicit distributions and probabilistic programs. Using the Wasserstein variational inference framework, we introduce several new forms of autoencoders and test their robustness and performance against existing variational autoencoding techniques.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
NeurIPS
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1805.11284
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Ambrogioni1245.26
Umut Güçlü28810.86
Yagmur Güçlütürk3324.77
Max Hinne4536.09
Marcel Van Gerven532139.35
Maris, Eric610.68
van Gerven, Marcel A.700.34